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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event CHI75DEE06

1975-07-19 ELGIN, Illinois, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N11ME

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

MONNETT MONNETT II

Year of manufacture

1971 · 4 years old at event

Engine

VOLKSWAGEN CONVERSION (36 hp)

Seats / Engines

1 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19800627

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A02AF2

Registrant of record

EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

MONNETT 2 · N11ME

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

D1

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Wind

220° / 10 kt

Temp

75° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000000001

Total time

371 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

756

Age

31

Investigator remarks

ACFT HIT A NO PARKING SIGN.

Cause factors

  • 64/C/29 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING Cause
  • 64/C/32 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISMANAGEMENT OF FUEL Cause
  • 88/C/63 C
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL EXHAUSTION Cause
  • 64/B/15 B
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS
  • 83/K/I K
    TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS Joint factor

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1952. Source file NTSB_1975_3_1952.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.